﻿The Street Lit Blog

Below you'll find Street Lit news posts from my Austin years with the group, and a selection of the creative works of theStreet Lit Authors Club. I'll be posting new works from the Missoula folks sooner than later, so keep an eye on us. We've got great things in the works.

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You paint LOUD! with eyes screaming wide. Teeth rattling the backs of my eyeballs, Color wailing through open windows, Shapes bellowing over gray-slicked streets. You drown out the red-blue sirens, and shout down like a boss​ the erasures of the day.

The Street Lit Authors Club took a break from our regular meeting at the ARCH, and headed out to the Texas Book Festival for the day!

Here are two of the panels we attended:"THE POETS" Moderated by Sasha WestWhat could be more monumental than a panel with a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (Gregory Pardlo), a lyric video pioneer and poetess (Rachel Eliza Griffiths), and a renowned memoirist-poet (Nick Flynn)? Not much! Join these three celebrated poets as they discuss what it means to be an American in a country that's become more intricate than simply "the land of the free."

"THE O. HENRY PRIZE STORIES 2015"Moderated by Laura FurmanAuthors: Elizabeth McCracken & Elizabeth StroutEvery year, The O. Henry Prize Stories publishes the 20 best short stories published in U.S. and Canadian literary magazines. Join Elizabeth McCracken, Pulitzer Prize-winning Elizabeth Strout, and O. Henry Prize Stories editor Laura Furman for a discussion about the featured stories and the art of storytelling.After the poetry panel, we headed to the signing tent and had the pleasure of chatting with Nick Flynn. Nick (we call him Nick) is an incredibly nice guy, an inspiration in many more ways than writing alone.

​The Street Lit Authors Club is celebrating its second month in operation with a feature in the Daily Texan!I write this post with a hearty thanks to those who have contributed on Crowdrise to the project; to those who have given their moral support, time and energy; and to Katie Walsh, reporter for the Daily Texan, and staff photographer, Rachel Zein. Most of all, thanks to the folks who have been attending the Street Lit workshops--you never fail to surprise me, and it's an honor to be at the same table with you all. Bravo!

It was so big. A giant peace symbol on the side of the ship. (The bottom leg was missing, so it was more of a Mercedes symbol.)

Now I knew why the U.S.S. Forrestal side cleaners got their liberty cancelled and had to return to the ship in Barcelona. They had scrubbed a mile high peace sign on the seaward hull where nobody would see it. The tide had turned, and the seaward side of the ship was now the shoreward side. Everybody saw it then!

Barcelona is too nice a port to have a short liberty at. I got to buy a guitar there, anyway, and met a very nice prostitute who called me a cab and told the cabbie not to rip me off and even paid the fare, and I never even used her services!